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Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

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“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

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“If one man has a dollar he didn’t work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn’t get.”
― William "Big Bill" Haywood

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“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays

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“If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.”
― Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

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“Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.”
― Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

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